[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#911705: Bug#911705: #911705 [l10n|gu] debian-installer: fonts broken for Gujarati

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Holger Wansing (2018-12-02 20:40:15)
> Hi,
> 
> Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
> > Quoting Holger Wansing (2018-12-02 15:43:57)
> > > Holger Wansing <hwansing at mailbox.org> wrote:
> > > > Holger Wansing <hwansing at mailbox.org> wrote:
> > > > > Holger Wansing <hwansing at mailbox.org> wrote:
> > > > > > Package: fonts-freefont-udeb
> > > > > > Severity: normal
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I just noticed that Gujarati is no longer unusable, because of 
> > > > > > broken font (all characters replaced by placeholder, see 
> > > > > > attached screenshot).
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > This seems to be related to the new fonts-freefont-udeb package, 
> > > > > > which replaced ttf-freefont-udeb:
> > > > > > When I use the ttf-freefont-udeb package from Stretch as 
> > > > > > localudeb to build the netboot-gtk target here locally, Gujarati 
> > > > > > fonts seem to be fine again (see second screenshot).
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Any chance we can get this fixed for Buster?
> > 
> > Perhaps someone in debian-in can help answer above?
> > 
> > An alternative is for Gujarati to use fonts-noto.  If relevant, then
> > I'd be happy to extend the fonts-noto udeb as needed, but it needs 
> > someone who actually understand Gujarati to proof-read if using Noto is 
> > not inferior to the previous Freefont display, 
> 
> I'm pretty sure, Kartik Mistry would be able to help here (Gujarati 
> translator).
> 
> > and it needs someone 
> > (you, Holger?) to help generate something for those Gujarati experts to 
> > proof-read.
> 
> I looked into this:
> Font selection is done in rootskel-gtk, and i added a variant for gu 
> like this:
> 
> ----- snip ------
> # Set the primary GTK font according to language
> FONT_NAME=$DEFAULT_FONT
> case "$language" in
>     ar|fa)
>         FONT_NAME="Nazli"
>         FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
>         ;;
>     am)
>         FONT_NAME="Abyssinica SIL"
>         FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 1))
>         ;;
>     dz|bo)
>         FONT_NAME="Tibetan Machine Uni"
>         FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
>         ;;
>     gu)
>         FONT_NAME="Noto Sans Gujarati"
>         FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
>     ja)
>         FONT_NAME="VL Gothic"
>         ;;
>     km)
>         FONT_NAME="Khmer OS System"
>         FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 1))
>         ;;
>     kn)
>         FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 1))
>         ;;
>     ko)
>         FONT_NAME="UnDotum"
>         ;;
>     pa)
>         FONT_NAME="Lohit Punjabi"
>         ;;
>     si)
>         FONT_NAME="Noto Sans Sinhala"
>         ;;
>     ta)
>         FONT_NAME="TSCu_Paranar"
>         FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
>         ;;
>     th)
>         FONT_NAME="Loma"
>         FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
>         ;;
>     ug)
>         FONT_NAME="UKIJ Tuz"
>         FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 1))
>         ;;
>     zh*)
>         FONT_NAME="AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni"
>         ;;
>     bn|hi|ml|mr|ne)
>         FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
>         ;;
> esac
> ----- snap ------
> 
> However, this does not work, Gujarati is still unreadable.
> (With the above changing I re-built the package and used it as localudeb
> for building a netboot-gtk image.)
> Is "Noto Sans Gujarati" correct, as shown above?

As I mention in above quote, fonts-noto udeb need to extended to include 
Gujarati, because that udeb should only contain what is actually used - 
see bug#837926.

You want me to add Noto Sans Gujarati to the udeb?


 - Jonas

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